How many years should a person be imprisoned for including ‘criminals’ in parties: Kejriwal asks Shah

Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday (August 25, 2025) criticised Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the Constitution Amendment Bill.

Mr. Kejriwal asked how many years of prison a person should face who includes “criminals” in political parties and later makes them Prime Minister and Chief Minister.

“Should a person who includes criminals of serious crimes in his party, gets all their cases dismissed, and makes them Ministers, Deputy Chief Ministers, or Chief Ministers, also be required to resign from his position? How many years of imprisonment should such a person face?” Mr. Kejriwal wrote on ‘X’.

The former Delhi CM further hit out at the Union Home Minister, questioning whether a Minister who has been falsely framed and sent to prison, is later acquitted, then how many years of jail should that person face who falsely implicated the Minister.

Mr. Kejriwal was arrested in March last year by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an excise policy-linked money laundering case, making him the first sitting Chief Minister to be arrested.

In another post, Mr. Kejriwal said, “When the Centre, under a political conspiracy, falsely implicated me in a case and sent me to jail, I ran the government from jail for 160 days.” He said that in the past seven months, the BJP Government in Delhi has brought the city to such a state that the people of Delhi are now remembering the government that functioned from jail.

“At least during the time of the jail-run government, there were no power cuts, water was available, free medicines were provided in hospitals and mohalla clinics, free tests were conducted, a single spell of rain didn’t wreak such havoc in Delhi, and private schools were not allowed to act arbitrarily or engage in hooliganism,” he said.